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European Observatory of Medical Demography

Objectives of the Observatory

On December 3rd 2010, the European Observatory of Medical Demography was created on the initiative of Dr. Patrick Romestaing, President of the Public Health and Medical Demography Department of the French Medical Council.

to carry out a state of play (numbers, density, distribution, modes of exercise and medical and surgical specialties)

to tend to a harmonization of the databases between the Member States

to carry out an analysis of the migratory movements between the Member States

► ATechnical Committee, composed of the members of the Working Group and the CEOM as well as all the interested European medical organizations. The Technical Committee will meet during the CEOM Plenary meetings.

Publications and Work in Progress

2016

18-19.02.2016

Varna, Bulgaria

Third Joint Action Conference on planning and educating health workforce without borders

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This Second Conference of the Joint Action was organised under the high patronage of the Italian Presidency of the European Union. During this Conference, three main topics were addressed:

1) Employment of Health Workforce

In the first part of the agenda we will tackle the challenges for health workforce employment providing variety of sessions with focus on different perspectives particularly on Health Workers, Skills and Employment.

2) Improving Planning Methodologies

In the second part of the agenda we are happy to present to you our latest deliverable - Handbook on Planning Methodologies along with practice sessions aiming at Linking administrative databases to improve Health Workforce Data. Furthermore we will introduce our Pilot Study Project and will tackle the topic of GPs Workforce Projections.

3) Applicability of the Global Code of Practice

Third part of the confernce agenda will be dedicated to challenges of international recruitment and applicability of WHO Global Code of Practice related to international recruitment of health personnel

The workshop was jointly organised with the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL). The meeting focused on the follow-up of the main topics covered and activities carried out in Budapest. The Hungarian leaders presented the preliminary results of the work package 4 questionnaire survey.

Two group sessions were organised, respectively on terminology and mobility, allowing stakeholders to discuss specific issues of comparability of data, data content and quality and flow of mobility data.

At this occasion the next steps for the work package 4 were also discussed.

28-29.01.2014

Bratislava

First Joint Action Conference and Stakeholder Forum

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The first Plenary Assembly of the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting gathered all associated and collaborating partners. This meeting was the occasion to present an overview of the work carried out and the progress made by the different work packages since the kick-off of the Joint Action in April 2013. The planning and the work programme for the upcoming year was introduced.

Several panel discussions and breakout sessions on health workforce planning and mobility were held during this two-day meeting, especially on recruitment and retention, anticipated workforce planning and global mobility.

The aim of this Working Package is to provide better understanding of available data on Member States and EU level and on that basis, providing policy recommendations to improve data collection in the EU Member States, with special focus on mobility.

Kick-off of the work package 4 - Data for improved health workforce planning

The work package 4, led by Hungary, was launched on Friday, April 12th, 2013. The general objective of this work package is to provide a better understanding of the available data at the EU and member states level. On that basis, this work package will provide policy recommendations to improve the quality and the comparability of data collected in the member states in order to improve health workforce planning practices.

11.04.2013

Brussels

Kick-off of the Joint Action on Health workforce Planning and Forecasting

The Joint Action on Health workforce Planning and Forecasting was officially launched on Thursday, April 11th, 2013. This 3-year project led by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health aims at enabling EU member states to have a better prepared health workforce for the future challenges by creating a platform for cooperation and exchange of good practices and expertise. The Joint Action is divided into 6 workpackages and involves 29 associated partners and 21 collaborating partners (the CEOM is one of them).